]]> http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/2013/05/why-cs-teachers-should-stop-teaching-java-applets/#comment-976574 Wed, 22 Apr 2015 03:22:33 +0000 http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/?p=952#comment-976574 Pardon the punctuation error at the end of my comment. I intended to use a question mark and am now unable to edit my comment.

]]> http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/2013/05/why-cs-teachers-should-stop-teaching-java-applets/#comment-976571 Wed, 22 Apr 2015 03:02:38 +0000 http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/?p=952#comment-976571 An additional point I thought I would add is that the element is deprecated in HTML5. The W3C lists the applet element along with others in a list that states

“Elements in the following list are entirely obsolete, and must not be used by authors”

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/obsolete.html#non-conforming-features

Correct me if I am wrong here, but wasn’t the whole point of Applets to be able to embed them into HTML.

]]> http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/2013/05/why-cs-teachers-should-stop-teaching-java-applets/#comment-963953 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 20:21:27 +0000 http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/?p=952#comment-963953 From Andrew: Most other applets could be done using HTML forms for input and JS for communicating with the server side.

Can I use HTML forms for input and java server pages? Instead of my failing applet. (You recently responded to my stackoverflow question regarding my JList not showing values from REST based third party program, when I run applet.)

I want to host a web page that makes use of a 3rd party Java library (presented in a .jar file). In the general case, what architecture should I be using to accomplish this? All I’m finding to execute client-side Java is the .

Joe

That type of non-applet functionality would not suffer from most of the problems that plague applets. E.G.

– security concerns with the plug-in

– lack of availability of the required minimum version of the plug-in

– problems with the interaction between the browser & JVM

– accessibility problems in navigating the elements of the web page using the keyboard

– ..

I thought Applets were a way to get Java code to display inside a browser. Is there an alternative to this? Eliminating the use of Applets does not really solve the problem of “how to get this program onto a website.”

If there is no alternative(besides rewriting a program in JavaScript), then are you merely suggesting teachers shouldn’t require students create applets to test code as they learn?

In short, I’m wondering what is the recommended way to publish programs to a web page or create web applications if not with Applets.

]]> http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/2013/05/why-cs-teachers-should-stop-teaching-java-applets/#comment-198024 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 09:51:41 +0000 http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/?p=952#comment-198024 You have chosen a really dangerous title for that article! Teachers should not stop teaching applet technology. If you are a java teacher, you cannot leave out a technology, otherwise you are not a good teacher! I recommend strongly to teach applets in their basics and show clearly when to use this technology. You cannot say “Throw applets away”! I’m a programmer at a university and we pointed out, that we have our good reasons to use them. So I would say my java teacher was a very bad teacher, if left out a chapter!

I’m really sad to say, but unfortunately, there is a trend to propagate such rigid opinions and i hat it 🙁